Culture War Political Fights Resurface as House Approves 19.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise and Senate Eyes 5.5% For the second year in a row, the House approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, mostly along...
Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown Overcomes Crowded GOP Senate Primary Field, Setting Up Key Nevada Race Republican Sam Brown overcame a crowded field of primary opponents to win Nevada’s GOP U.S. Senate primary, setting up a...
Uncle Sam Needs You ... to Be a Poll Worker for This Year's Election The Vet the Vote campaign seeks to renew faith in American democracy and the election system by encouraging veterans and...
Navy Vet Has Trump's Nod Ahead of Virginia's US Senate Primary, Targets Tim Kaine in Uphill Battle Political observers have already placed bets on Tim Kaine, predicting the Democrat will glide into a third term as the junior...
White House Threatens to Veto VA, Military Construction Spending Bill over GOP Policies The White House is threatening to veto the annual Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction funding bill over...
Senators Demand Recoupment of $10.8 Million, Dismissal of VA Officials Who Authorized Executive Bonuses A group of senators, led by Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, demanded "immediate action" in a...
After Failing to Overturn VA Abortion, LGBTQ+ Policies, House Republicans Try Again with Must-Pass Bill Kicking off the fiscal 2025 appropriations process with controversial policy riders sets the stage for a replay of the...
House Votes to Require Delivery of Bombs to Israel in GOP-Led Rebuke of Biden Policies Debate over the bill, rushed to the House floor by GOP leadership this week, showed Washington's deeply fractured outlook on...
Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill Gets Agreement Between House and Senate The Department of Veterans Affairs caregiver program, the beleaguered electronic health records program, veteran homelessness...
In Reversal, Virginia School Board Votes to Restore Confederate Generals’ Names to 2 Schools Shenandoah County's school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run...
Russian Flotilla Off Florida Coast Sparks Deployment of US Navy Destroyers, Planes The Russian Ministry of Defense said in an online post that the ships conducted exercises in the use of "high-precision...
Massive Search at Hawaii Marine Corps Training Ground Fails to Find Alleged Poachers Carrying Gun, Knife The alleged trespassing coincided with reports of "shots fired" at the training area, which apparently did not originate from...
White House 'Strongly Opposes' Proposed 19.5% Pay Hike for Junior Enlisted Troops The statement from the White House suggested Congress should wait until the administration's review is done to make any...
Navy Relieved 12 Commanders in 6 Months — Including 3 Firings that Were Never Publicly Announced When asked why the three firings were not made public, a Navy spokesman said that the sea service does not publicly announce...
5.5% vs. 19.5% Pay Raise: Senate Diverges from House on How Much to Boost Junior Enlisted Paychecks The House and Senate will need to negotiate a compromise version of their respective bills before this year's NDAA can become...